NCT05342779

Radio Frequency Ablation Versus Stripping of Great Saphenous Vein in Management of Primary Varicose Veins , Comparative Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sohag University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Varicose veins are one of the most common diseases worldwide it constitutes a progressive disease which during its course it produces complications that usually prompt the patient to seek medical care. Epidemiological studies of the incidence and prevalence of varicose veins found that the majority of adults would develop it over the course of their lifetime; women were found to be four times likely as men to develop it, the incidence of varicose vein occurrence increases with age. Varicose veins are defined as tortuous dilated veins after or associated with incompetent valves.

Conditions

• Varicose Veins

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	stripping of great saphenous vein	I will make 2 or 3 small cuts in your leg. The cuts are near the top, middle, and bottom of your damaged vein. One is in your groin. The other will be farther down your leg, either in your calf or ankle. I will then thread a thin, flexible plastic wire into the vein through your groin and guide the wire through the vein toward the other cut farther down your leg. The wire is then tied to the vein and pulled out through the lower cut, which pulls the vein out with it. I will close the cuts with stitches. Patient will wear bandages and compression stockings on leg after the procedure.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-01
• Primary completion: 2023-06-01
• Completion: 2023-06-01
• First posted: 2022-04-25
• Last updated: 2022-04-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt